Project 1: Exploring the difference between schools of philosophy

Jiapeng Xu JX2427 Date: 09/20/2022

For most people, philosophy maybe obscure and confusing. It usually takes lots of time to understand the overall conceptions between different schools of philosophy. However, taking advantage of this project, we can hand over this problem to our computer, solving this by NLP and machine learning. In this project, exploratory data analysis was first conducted to get some insights hidden in the dataset by visualizing. Then, according to the matrix of token counts, different schools of philosophy were clustered together to understand the similarity between them. In the last step, by using sentiment analysis classification, our algorithm acquired the ability to predict the corresponding school after seeing the sentence only.

# Packages
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import time
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
import dataframe_image as dfi
from wordcloud import WordCloud, STOPWORDS

from sklearn.preprocessing import OrdinalEncoder
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split, cross_val_score, GridSearchCV
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
import random

from scipy.spatial.distance import pdist
from scipy.cluster.hierarchy import dendrogram,linkage

Step1: Data harvest: read the csv file and check the basic information of the dataset

# Read data
df = pd.read_csv("../Project 1/philosophy_data.csv")

# Structure of data
df.info()

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 360808 entries, 0 to 360807
Data columns (total 11 columns):
 #   Column                     Non-Null Count   Dtype 
---  ------                     --------------   ----- 
 0   title                      360808 non-null  object
 1   author                     360808 non-null  object
 2   school                     360808 non-null  object
 3   sentence_spacy             360808 non-null  object
 4   sentence_str               360808 non-null  object
 5   original_publication_date  360808 non-null  int64 
 6   corpus_edition_date        360808 non-null  int64 
 7   sentence_length            360808 non-null  int64 
 8   sentence_lowered           360808 non-null  object
 9   tokenized_txt              360808 non-null  object
 10  lemmatized_str             360808 non-null  object
dtypes: int64(3), object(8)
memory usage: 30.3+ MB

# Preview
df.head(10)

	title	author	school	sentence_spacy	sentence_str	original_publication_date	corpus_edition_date	sentence_length	sentence_lowered	tokenized_txt	lemmatized_str
0	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	What's new, Socrates, to make you leave your ...	What's new, Socrates, to make you leave your ...	-350	1997	125	what's new, socrates, to make you leave your ...	['what', 'new', 'socrates', 'to', 'make', 'you...	what be new , Socrates , to make -PRON- lea...
1	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	Surely you are not prosecuting anyone before t...	Surely you are not prosecuting anyone before t...	-350	1997	69	surely you are not prosecuting anyone before t...	['surely', 'you', 'are', 'not', 'prosecuting',...	surely -PRON- be not prosecute anyone before ...
2	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	The Athenians do not call this a prosecution b...	The Athenians do not call this a prosecution b...	-350	1997	74	the athenians do not call this a prosecution b...	['the', 'athenians', 'do', 'not', 'call', 'thi...	the Athenians do not call this a prosecution ...
3	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	What is this you say?	What is this you say?	-350	1997	21	what is this you say?	['what', 'is', 'this', 'you', 'say']	what be this -PRON- say ?
4	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	Someone must have indicted you, for you are no...	Someone must have indicted you, for you are no...	-350	1997	101	someone must have indicted you, for you are no...	['someone', 'must', 'have', 'indicted', 'you',...	someone must have indict -PRON- , for -PRON- ...
5	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	But someone else has indicted you?	But someone else has indicted you?	-350	1997	34	but someone else has indicted you?	['but', 'someone', 'else', 'has', 'indicted', ...	but someone else have indict -PRON- ?
6	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	I do not really know him myself, Euthyphro.	I do not really know him myself, Euthyphro.	-350	1997	43	i do not really know him myself, euthyphro.	['do', 'not', 'really', 'know', 'him', 'myself...	-PRON- do not really know -PRON- -PRON- , Eut...
7	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	He is apparently young and unknown.	He is apparently young and unknown.	-350	1997	35	he is apparently young and unknown.	['he', 'is', 'apparently', 'young', 'and', 'un...	-PRON- be apparently young and unknown .
8	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	They call him Meletus, I believe.	They call him Meletus, I believe.	-350	1997	33	they call him meletus, i believe.	['they', 'call', 'him', 'meletus', 'believe']	-PRON- call -PRON- Meletus , -PRON- believe .
9	Plato - Complete Works	Plato	plato	He belongs to the Pitthean deme, if you know a...	He belongs to the Pitthean deme, if you know a...	-350	1997	147	he belongs to the pitthean deme, if you know a...	['he', 'belongs', 'to', 'the', 'pitthean', 'de...	-PRON- belong to the Pitthean deme , if -PRON...

# Check if this dataset contain duplicates
df.duplicated().sum()

0

Step2: Exploratory data analysis

# Check how many kinds of titles in this dataset. And plot the distribution of titles.
print(f'There are {len(df.title.unique())} kinds of titles in total. \nThe distribution of titles are plotted below:')

df.title.value_counts().plot.bar(figsize = (15,5), title = 'titles');

There are 59 kinds of titles in total. 
The distribution of titles are plotted below:

By this plot, we find the number of 'Aristotle - Complete Works' and 'Plato - Complete Works' are the most.

# Check how many kinds of authors in this dataset. And plot the distribution of authors.
print(f'There are {len(df.author.unique())} kinds of authors in total. \nThe distribution authors are plotted below:')
df.author.value_counts().plot.bar(figsize = (15,5), title = 'authors');

There are 36 kinds of authors in total. 
The distribution authors are plotted below:

Similar to the previous one, among all authors, the number of 'Aristotle' and 'Plato' are the most.

# Check how many kinds of schools in this dataset. And plot the distribution of schools.
print(f'There are {len(df.school.unique())} kinds of schools in total. \nThe distribution schools are plotted below:')
df.school.value_counts().plot.bar(figsize = (15,5), title = 'schools');

There are 13 kinds of schools in total. 
The distribution schools are plotted below:

This diagram shows the number of 'stoicism' is the least.

# Check the distribution of sentence length 
print(df.sentence_length.describe())
df.sentence_length.plot.hist(bins = 100, figsize = (15,5), title = 'sentence length');

count    360808.000000
mean        150.790964
std         104.822072
min          20.000000
25%          75.000000
50%         127.000000
75%         199.000000
max        2649.000000
Name: sentence_length, dtype: float64

By this table and diagram, we can find the distribution of sentence length. Most of the sentence lengths are in the range between 0 and 500. The mean and standard deviation of sentence length are 151 and 105, respectively.

# Check the distribution of original publication date
df.original_publication_date.plot.hist(bins = 100, figsize = (15,5), title = 'original publication date');

According to the above diagram, most original publication dates are between 1500 and 2000. A small proportion are located at 350 BC.

# Plot the distribution of sentence length by title, author, and school. 
fig1, axs1 = plt.subplots(3, figsize = (20,40))
fig1.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.8)

df.boxplot(column = 'sentence_length', by = 'title', rot = 90, ax = axs1[0]);
df.boxplot(column = 'sentence_length', by = 'author', rot = 90, ax = axs1[1]);
df.boxplot(column = 'sentence_length', by = 'school', rot = 90, ax = axs1[2]);
axs1[0].set_title('The distribution of sentence length by title', fontsize = 15, y = 1.05)
axs1[1].set_title('The distribution of sentence length by author', fontsize = 15, y = 1.05)
axs1[2].set_title('The distribution of sentence length by school', fontsize = 15, y = 1.05)
axs1[0].set_ylabel('sentence length')
axs1[1].set_ylabel('sentence length')
axs1[2].set_ylabel('sentence length')
fig1.suptitle('');

According to the above three boxplots, sentences in 'Discourse on methods' and 'Second treatise on goverment' tend to have a bigger length. All the other titles, authors, and schools tend to express opinions using similar length.

# Plot the distribution of original publication date by school to see in which century it is.
df.boxplot(column = 'original_publication_date', by = 'school', rot = 90, figsize = (20, 10));
plt.suptitle('The distribution of original publication date by school', fontsize = 15, y = 0.97);
plt.title('');
plt.ylabel('original publication date');

From this boxplot, we find 'aristotle', 'plato', and 'stoicism' have a relatively longer history. All the others are located in a similar period

# Check the mean original publication date and mean sentence length grouped by school, author, and title.
table = df.groupby(by = ['author', 'title'], as_index = False)[['original_publication_date', 'sentence_length']].mean().set_index('author')\
.join(df.groupby(by = ['school', 'author'], as_index = False)\
      [['original_publication_date', 'sentence_length']].mean().set_index('author'),\
      how = 'left',
      lsuffix = '_by_title').reset_index().set_index('school')\
.join(df.groupby(by = 'school')[['original_publication_date', 'sentence_length']].mean(),
      how = 'left',
      lsuffix = '_by_author',
      rsuffix = '_by_school').reset_index().round({'original_publication_date_by_school': 0,
                                                   'original_publication_date_by_author': 0,
                                                   'original_publication_date_by_title': 0,
                                                   'sentence_length_by_school': 2,
                                                   'sentence_length_by_author': 2,
                                                   'sentence_length_by_title': 2})\
.astype({'original_publication_date_by_school': 'int32',
         'original_publication_date_by_author': 'int32',
         'original_publication_date_by_title': 'int32'})\
.set_index(['school',
            'original_publication_date_by_school',
            'sentence_length_by_school',
            'author',
            'original_publication_date_by_author',
            'sentence_length_by_author',
            'title'])

dfi.export(table,"mytable.png")

table

							original_publication_date_by_title	sentence_length_by_title
school	original_publication_date_by_school	sentence_length_by_school	author	original_publication_date_by_author	sentence_length_by_author	title
analytic	1959	119.03	Kripke	1974	119.03	Naming And Necessity	1972	120.57
						Philosophical Troubles	1975	118.60
			Lewis	1985	109.72	Lewis - Papers	1985	109.72
			Moore	1910	167.25	Philosophical Studies	1910	167.25
			Popper	1959	139.55	The Logic Of Scientific Discovery	1959	139.55
			Quine	1950	121.64	Quintessence	1950	121.64
			Russell	1918	146.30	The Analysis Of Mind	1921	142.64
						The Problems Of Philosophy	1912	154.54
			Wittgenstein	1948	84.88	On Certainty	1950	79.38
						Philosophical Investigations	1953	83.58
						Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	1921	100.19
aristotle	-320	153.22	Aristotle	-320	153.22	Aristotle - Complete Works	-320	153.22
capitalism	1813	187.58	Keynes	1936	196.65	A General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money	1936	196.65
			Ricardo	1817	186.25	On The Principles Of Political Economy And Taxation	1817	186.25
			Smith	1776	185.28	The Wealth Of Nations	1776	185.28
communism	1877	152.75	Lenin	1862	181.42	Essential Works Of Lenin	1862	181.42
			Marx	1882	143.25	Capital	1883	142.97
						The Communist Manifesto	1848	150.68
continental	1966	171.79	Deleuze	1970	163.67	Anti-Oedipus	1972	165.51
						Difference And Repetition	1968	161.58
			Derrida	1967	143.43	Writing And Difference	1967	143.43
			Foucault	1963	189.64	History Of Madness	1961	174.42
						The Birth Of The Clinic	1963	184.99
						The Order Of Things	1966	218.20
empiricism	1716	183.64	Berkeley	1712	139.65	A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge	1710	184.72
						Three Dialogues	1713	111.98
			Hume	1745	180.19	A Treatise Of Human Nature	1739	183.01
						Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	1779	164.51
			Locke	1689	200.40	Essay Concerning Human Understanding	1689	190.59
						Second Treatise On Government	1689	266.79
feminism	1933	153.08	Beauvoir	1949	148.79	The Second Sex	1949	148.79
			Davis	1981	139.67	Women, Race, And Class	1981	139.67
			Wollstonecraft	1792	190.96	Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman	1792	190.96
german_idealism	1803	180.25	Fichte	1798	151.96	The System Of Ethics	1798	151.96
			Hegel	1815	175.72	Elements Of The Philosophy Of Right	1820	161.01
						Science Of Logic	1817	187.17
						The Phenomenology Of Spirit	1807	168.70
			Kant	1785	198.16	Critique Of Judgement	1790	211.98
						Critique Of Practical Reason	1788	175.38
						Critique Of Pure Reason	1781	197.86
nietzsche	1887	116.60	Nietzsche	1887	116.60	Beyond Good And Evil	1886	188.08
						Ecce Homo	1888	133.98
						The Antichrist	1888	133.34
						Thus Spake Zarathustra	1887	80.56
						Twilight Of The Idols	1888	126.84
phenomenology	1938	145.91	Heidegger	1937	118.54	Being And Time	1927	126.47
						Off The Beaten Track	1950	108.53
			Husserl	1931	185.47	The Crisis Of The European Sciences And Phenomenology	1936	192.05
						The Idea Of Phenomenology	1907	150.56
			Merleau-Ponty	1945	170.93	The Phenomenology Of Perception	1945	170.93
plato	-350	114.94	Plato	-350	114.94	Plato - Complete Works	-350	114.94
rationalism	1681	163.96	Descartes	1640	247.38	Discourse On Method	1637	375.60
						Meditations On First Philosophy	1641	192.34
			Leibniz	1710	157.09	Theodicy	1710	157.09
			Malebranche	1674	164.43	The Search After Truth	1674	164.43
			Spinoza	1677	146.54	Ethics	1677	142.07
						On The Improvement Of Understanding	1677	176.80
stoicism	164	137.06	Epictetus	125	118.43	Enchiridion	125	118.43
			Marcus Aurelius	170	139.78	Meditations	170	139.78

This table lists precisely the mean sentence length and original publication date by each school, authors, and titles. Similar insights can be generated from this table.

# Plot the wordclouds of each school
stopwords = set(STOPWORDS)

fig2, axs2 = plt.subplots(7,2, figsize = (20, 100))
fig2.tight_layout()
axs2 = axs2.ravel()
fig2.delaxes(axs2[13])

school_list = list(df.school.unique())

for i in school_list:
    corpus_i = df.loc[df.school == i, 'sentence_str'].tolist()
    corpus_i = ''.join(corpus_i)
    wordcloud = WordCloud(width = 800, 
                          height = 1000, 
                          background_color = 'white',                                                 
                          stopwords = stopwords, 
                          min_font_size = 10).generate(corpus_i)
    axs2[school_list.index(i)].imshow(wordcloud)
    axs2[school_list.index(i)].set_title('Wordcloud of ' + i, fontsize = 20, y = 1.02);
    axs2[school_list.index(i)].axis('off')

Wordcloud of each school of philosophy were plotted above, from which we are able to find the word pattern between different schools

Step3: Clustering of schools

# Create a new corpus grouped by schools
corpus_by_school = []

for i in school_list:
    corpus_i = df.loc[df.school == i, 'sentence_str'].tolist()
    corpus_i = ''.join(corpus_i)
    corpus_by_school.append(corpus_i)

# Use 'TfidfVectorizer' to convert the new corpus into a matrix of normalized token counts
TfidfVec = TfidfVectorizer(lowercase = True,
                           min_df = 5,
                           max_df = 0.8,
                           ngram_range = (1,1))
X_vec = TfidfVec.fit_transform(corpus_by_school)
X_vec_df = pd.DataFrame.sparse.from_spmatrix(X_vec, 
                                             index = school_list,
                                             columns = list(dict(sorted(TfidfVec.vocabulary_.items(), key = lambda x: x[1])).keys()))

# Use HAC to cluster all the schools and plot the dendrogram
HAC = linkage(pdist(X_vec_df, metric = 'euclidean'), method = 'complete')

plt.figure(figsize=(25, 15))
dendrogram(HAC,
           orientation = 'right',
           labels = school_list,
           distance_sort = 'descending',
           show_leaf_counts = False)
plt.show()

Hierarchical clustering was conducted in this step. According to the dendrogram, we find that 'stoicism' and 'nietzsche' are the most similar schools. After this pair, 'communism' and 'capitalism' are most similar.

Step4: Sentiment analysis

# Define the corpus
corpus = list(df.sentence_str)

# Use 'OrdinalEncoder' to transfer schools into numbers
encoder = OrdinalEncoder()
Y_2d = encoder.fit_transform(np.array(df.school).reshape(len(df.school),1))
Y = Y_2d.reshape(len(df.school),).astype('int64')

# Train & Test split
X_train, X_test, Y_train, Y_test = train_test_split(corpus, Y)

# Use a pipeline to wrap vectorizer and classifier together
# After fitting the pipeline, calculate the cross validation accuracy and test set accuracy of the model
pipe_sa = Pipeline([('TfidfVec', TfidfVectorizer(lowercase = True,
                                                 min_df = 5,
                                                 max_df = 0.8,
                                                 ngram_range = (1,1))),
                    ('lr', LogisticRegression(C = 1,
                                              penalty = 'l2',
                                              multi_class = 'multinomial', 
                                              max_iter = 1000))])
pipe_sa.fit(X_train, Y_train)
cv_score_pipe = cross_val_score(pipe_sa, X_train, Y_train) 
print(f'pipe cv accuracy: {cv_score_pipe.mean():0.2f}')
test_score_pipe = pipe_sa.score(X_test, Y_test)
print(f'pipe test set accuracy: {test_score_pipe:0.2f}')

pipe cv accuracy: 0.75
pipe test set accuracy: 0.77

# Visualize confusion matrix
Y_test_pred = pipe_sa.predict(X_test)

# Decode our test set and the prediction on test set to get corresponding school
Y_test_school = encoder.inverse_transform(Y_test.reshape(len(Y_test),1)).reshape(len(Y_test),)
Y_test_pred_school = encoder.inverse_transform(Y_test_pred.reshape(len(Y_test_pred),1)).reshape(len(Y_test_pred),)

cm = pd.crosstab(encoder.inverse_transform(Y_test_pred.reshape(len(Y_test_pred),1)).reshape(len(Y_test_pred),), 
                 encoder.inverse_transform(Y_test.reshape(len(Y_test),1)).reshape(len(Y_test),),
                 rownames = ['prediction'],
                 colnames = ['school'])

plt.figure(figsize=(10,8))
sns.heatmap(data = cm, annot=True, fmt='g', cmap='Blues');

# Randomly select some samples, and check whether our model is able to predict the school they belong to correctly
random.seed(123)
sample_list = random.sample(range(len(df)),10)
df.loc[sample_list,['school', 'sentence_str']]

	school	sentence_str
27453	plato	We're agreed about imitators, then.
140339	analytic	Even if the words which I say are those which,...
45710	aristotle	Perhaps the necessary is present also in the d...
213511	continental	If this constitutes a system of writing, it is...
139750	analytic	For if we too in these investigations are tryi...
56465	aristotle	All animals are furnished with fat, either int...
20003	plato	, that I hold to be worth all the other contes...
198770	continental	But all these positive elements which constitu...
281124	german_idealism	heingand its own reality.
294816	communism	Hence, the Shylock law of the Ten Tables.

# Create a new test set
X_test_new = df.sentence_str.loc[sample_list].tolist()
Y_test_new = df.school.loc[sample_list].tolist()

Y_predict = pipe_sa.predict(X_test_new) # Use our model to make prediction on the new test set 
Y_predict_school = encoder.inverse_transform(Y_predict.reshape(10,1)).reshape(10,) # Decode our prediction to get corresponding school
prediction = pd.DataFrame(data = {'sentence_str': X_test_new,
                                  'school': Y_test_new,
                                  'school_predict': Y_predict_school,
                                  'predict_outcome': Y_test_new == Y_predict_school},
                          index = sample_list)
prediction

	sentence_str	school	school_predict	predict_outcome
27453	We're agreed about imitators, then.	plato	plato	True
140339	Even if the words which I say are those which,...	analytic	analytic	True
45710	Perhaps the necessary is present also in the d...	aristotle	aristotle	True
213511	If this constitutes a system of writing, it is...	continental	continental	True
139750	For if we too in these investigations are tryi...	analytic	phenomenology	False
56465	All animals are furnished with fat, either int...	aristotle	aristotle	True
20003	, that I hold to be worth all the other contes...	plato	plato	True
198770	But all these positive elements which constitu...	continental	continental	True
281124	heingand its own reality.	german_idealism	german_idealism	True
294816	Hence, the Shylock law of the Ten Tables.	communism	german_idealism	False

In the last step, all sentence strings were converted into matrix of token number, on which logistic regression classifier was fitted. On the test set, our model accuracy is about 77%. Then 10 sentences were randomly selected to test the accuracy of our model in reality. As a result, among these 10 samples, only two sentences were predicted incorrectly. According to our previous conclusion, 'analytic' and 'phenomenology' are very similar. Therefore, for the 139750th sample, this wrong prediction is relatively pardonable.